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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricoidea) » Tortricid Moths (Tortricidae) » Tortricinae » Archipini » Pandemis » Green Aspen Leaftier Moth - Hodges#3595 (Pandemis canadana)

Species Pandemis canadana - Green Aspen Leaftier Moth - Hodges#3595

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

This looks like a Pandemis, but not sure which one? - Pandemis canadana

Pandemis heparana or limitata ? - Pandemis canadana

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Tortricoidea (Tortricid Moths)

Family Tortricidae (Tortricid Moths)

Subfamily Tortricinae

Tribe Archipini

Genus Pandemis

Species canadana (Green Aspen Leaftier Moth - Hodges#3595)

Hodges Number

3595

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Pandemis canadana Kearfott, 1905 (1)

Phylogenetic sequence #620250

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for the early collecting locations across the Canadian prairie: Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba. (1)

Size

Wingspan about 19-24.5 mm. (2), (1)

Identification

Adult - see original description in Print References. (1)

Range

Scattered records throughout North America. (2)

Food

Larvae are leaf rollers of a variety of deciduous trees, many in the willow family (Salicaceae). (3)

See Also

Pandemis limitata (Robinson) - many authors consider P. canadana a western race, at best. (4)

Print References

Kearfott, W.D., 1905. Assiniboia micro-lepidoptera, collected by Mr. T. N. Willing. The Canadian Entomologist 37(3): 90 (1)

Internet References

U of Alberta Entomology Collection

Moth Photographers Group

Thomas Nathaniel Willing (1858-1920)

William D. Kearfott (1864-1917)

Works Cited

1.	Assiniboia Micro-Lepidoptera, collected by Mr. T. N. Willing W. D. Kearfott. 1905. The Canadian Entomologist 37(3): 89-93.

2.	North American Moth Photographers Group

3.	looking for specific spider

4.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

Contributed by Jason J. Dombroskie on 24 March, 2011 - 3:57pm
Additional contributions by Tony-2, JohnMaxwell22, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 16 March, 2023 - 7:12am

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